Labor Day weekend

Carol and I have been doing as little as possible over this holiday weekend. We talked about driving somewhere, but driving is always a nightmare on Labor Day weekend. So, we’ve been sleeping late and doing some desultory housecleaning. And I took a couple of walks at nearby conservation areas.

On Friday, I went to Black Pond Bog, a Nature Conservancy property in Norwell.

A small bee on a flower.
A small green bee (Augochlora sp.?) pollinating Rough Boneset (Eupatorum pilosum) near Black Pond Bog, Norwell

On Saturday, I took a long walk in Wompatuck State Park. The park covers about 3,500 acres, and you can spend all day walking its miles of trails. It’s mostly wooded, but there are also a number of ponds.

A pond surrounded by woods at dusk.
Heron Pond, Wompatuck State Park, Hingham

Getting to Black Pond Bog and Wompatuck State Park both required a fifteen minute drive.

Today, neither Carol nor I felt like driving even that far. So we walked down Main Street from our apartment to Wheelwright Park, and from there into Wright Woods.

A fuzzy seed head of a grass plant nods in the breeze.
Yellow Foxtail (Setaria Pumila), Wheelwright Park, Cohasset
A bright red flower blooms in a pond at the base of a rock face.
Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) in Ice Pond, Wright Woods, Cohasset

We’re extraordinarily lucky to live in a place where we don’t have to drive long distances to find something to see and do on Labor Day weekend.